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1. After stamping with an embossing pad, pour Heat & Stick Powder liberally over design.
2. Shake off excess powder onto a clean sheet of paper and funnel it back into the bottle.
3. Heat the stamped image with a heat tool, just until the powder changes to a shiny liquid. Don't heat it too much or it will start to lose its stickiness.
4. Quickly pour glitter over the sticky fusing powder.
what's a versa pad, or embossing pad. I'm really new to this
Versamark Pad
Watermark ink
Makes tone-on-tone designs
Perfect for resist stamping and heat embossing
You'll achieve a subtle tone-on-tone effect when you stamp with this ink pad. Any design stamped on colored card stock will appear a few shades darker than the card stock, giving your project depth and interesting backgrounds. When stamped on text-weight, light-colored papers, the image will look like a watermark; the paper actually becomes slightly transparent.
what's a versa pad, or embossing pad. I'm really new to this
In addition to what Lisa S said, you can use the VersaMark pad/ink to do heat embossing by stamping on your project with it then add embossing powder, dump excess off onto clean paper and return it to container, then heat your image carefully with the heat gun until it becomes shiny everywhere.
You can do this with "embossing pads" or with VersaMark, but I prefer Versamark because you can also use it like Lisa said just to make a "watermark" type of image without using embossing powder or anything else, but you can't do this with a regular embossing pad. You can also use the VersaMark as a way to apply PearlEx powder. There is actually lots more that it can be used for, too, and it also comes in a marker form.
what's a versa pad, or embossing pad. I'm really new to this
And yet another thing you can do aside from what Lisa S & Harmony60 said, is you can stamp... lets say some flowers on a page in the versamark pad. then take your stampin' pastels and a q-tip and rub the chalks/pastels onto the flowers... it is a little hazy looking... but it looks like a beautiful bouquet. I use my versamark ink pads a lot!...
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